Morton Parish Church, Manse Road, Thornhill

William Burn, Architect. Built 1841. Gothic church with

round-arched details, simple rectangular-plan, 4-stage square

tower at west; low vestry at north east angle by James

Barbour, 1904. Stugged pinkish coursers, polished dressings. Hood-moulded round-headed openings with moulded and splayed

reveals. Tower: lower stages off-set, stepped angle

buttresses continued as clasping pilaster strips, with

pinnacles above corbelled open parapet; west-facing door has

nook-shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded arch;

louvered bipartite each face of top stage, clock to 3 faces

of stage below. Body of church with 5 buttressed bays and

corbelled parapets; pinnacled angle buttress; 5 lights in

east gable, 2-bay vestry in similar style; porch alongside.

Slate roofs. Interior: ceiling barrel-vaulted, with ribs and

bosses; horseshoe gallery with panelled front on cast-iron

columns. Leaded windows on east gable, that to north by

Ballantine and Gardner, circa 1892, others circa 1883-circa

1. Romanesque font 1887.